Anchor for check-row lines



(No Model.)` M. BARNES.

` 8 NGHOR FOR'QHEGK ROW LINES. `180.289,4372. 'Patented Dec. 4, .1883.`

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MONROE BARNES, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS. i

-ANCHOR FOR CHECK-ROW LINES;`

:SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters VPatent No. 289,372, dated December 4, 1883.

` Application sled November 27, 18H2. (No moan.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known `that I, MONROE BARNES, a resident of Bloomington, in the county of McLean, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anchors for Check-Bow Lines, Used in Connection with Corn-Planters, of which the following is a specication.

. My invention relates to anchors for sustain ing the check-row lines of corn-planters in position, and in particular does it relate to that class of anchors which permit of a lateral shift or adjustment of the check-row line attached thereto, so that for a single setting of any one anchor at either end of the line, the anchor so set will serve to position the line, first, while the planter crosses the field away from said anchor, and, second, upon reversal of the planter and with the fellow anchor in new position, while the planter returns again to the side where the rst anchorisvsituate.

My invention consists, essentially, in forming the main portion of the anchor of a iiexible cable, chain, or rope provided with suitable connections, the construction and mode of operation of all of which will be readily understood from the accompanying illustration and subjoined description.

A designates the main portion ofthe anchor, which is formed of any suitable flexible ma-4 terial-preferably cable, wire, chain, or rope. At the ends of this main portion A rings or loops are formed, through which pass the pins or stakes a, by means of which the anchor is securely retained in the desired position in the field. The check-row line B is connected to the anchor through the medium of the pulley-bloei; C, having the hook c. c

The manner of using my improved anchor is as follows: Across the field to be planted the cheek-row line'is stretched, said line, as well understood, being of any of the usual forms, having knots or projections at regularly-recurring distances corresponding to the distances between hills of corn. At each end of the check-row linea fiexible an- 4 chor, as heretofore described, is attached, said anchors being located, at the very outset directly opposite each other, as described in Reissue Patent No.

` 7, 522, dated February 20,

1877; but when the planter has once crossed in reverse position is in readiness to. advance across the field to the side from whence it started. At such juncture the various parts will be situated,` as shown by the full lines of the drawing, the anchor, as at l, being in .its original position against the fence or planted rows, and the anchor, as at 2, out of line therewith to an extent approximately equal to the width of the planter. In each case the retaining pins or stakes of the two anchors will be set in the ground at a distance apart about equal to the width of the planter, so that the flexible portion A of the two anchors, in so far as it overlaps or is in excess of such width, within proper limits, will permit the checkrow line to adjust itself on the machine to the lateral stretch or pull, and in the end to so .far compensate for the offset relation of the two anchors as that the uniform alignment of the various rows will always be maintained. The

planter, as shown by drawing, proceeds across the field on a right line about central to the anchor, from which it is receding,` and the check-row line rests on the planter on the side nearest to the fence or planted rows. The tension of the check-row line and its adjustnient necessary to regularity in operating the trip-valves may be readily determined by noting the distance from the planter to where the line comes in contact with the ground. As the planter reaches the end of its traverse,

the fiexible character of the anchor permits or" the last rows being set with as ready facility as the preceding,`and this being effected, the planter is turned about in position to recross the held at a distance nearly equal to the width of a corn-row from its former path. The anchor A is thereafter fixed immediately behind the planter, (as at 3, shown in dotted lines.) The check-row line is mounted on the side of the planter next to the planted rows, as before, and the machine is in readiness to proceed, it being noted that anchor A, as at 2,

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check-row line will be the same as heretofore `will, without need of removal, shift by thel action of the machine from its old'to the new location, (dotted lines,) and so in co-operation serve to position the check-row line during the traverse of the iield by the planter.

Instead of having the pins of the anchors set about equal to the width of the planter, or, in other words, as to the distance between rows apart, as heretofore described, said pins may be set at double such distance, and the iieXible part of the anchor be correspondingly lengthened, so as to overlap, as before. In such `arrangement of the parts, when the planter has accomplished its double traverse with respect to any one anehor-that is, from the anchor across the eld and returning to it again-it will only be necessary to move and reset that pin of the lanchor which is located farthest from the planter or that is in the planted rows. When reset, the adjustment of anchors and detailed, though it must be apparent that by having but one pin to fix there is a saving of MONROE BARNES.

Vitnesses:

JAMES H. Pinnen,

Gmo. l. FrsHER, J r. 

